HARMONY WITH NATURE OR INTEGRATION BEYOND IT?

HARMONY WITH NATURE OR INTEGRATION BEYOND IT?

How hard it is to hamonise with Nature. Perhaps, we need to seek a deeper synthesis. But is such a synthesis possible after all? Perhaps, it will be presumptuous to imagine that the surface of Nature converges within to a definite unitary endpoint. It could equally be a greater divergence of a particulate breadth where such  elementary synthesis is rendered invalid. In physics we know of electronic uncertainty and particulate chaos. What seems to be deterministic at the phenomenal surface of things, in what we term the macroscopic world, progressively becomes probabilistic in the elementary inside of things, in the macrocosm of the nucleus. The broad laws of physics operating in the large-scale structure of the universe, though causal, have their complementary little laws in the subatomic world which are entirely non-causal. These little laws then may no more be termed laws but are aspects of observation which alter contours and colours with the change in the observer or the observation. What heavy masses can resist, little masses fail to do. Tiny particles respond to optical irradiation to be randomized in their velocities, making prediction of future position or state with any degree of accuracy impossible, beyond what the bounds of probabilty allow. How this transition, from the certitude of causality to the uncertainty of the elementary particle, takes place, has not been possible to define. There is an unbridged chasm between the large and the little of the universe and here lies the impasse of modern physics which has not yet been resolved. The Unified Field Theory, the Theory of Everything, the Super-string Theory and the like have not been able to provide as yet a coherent explanation of phenomena. Thus, to go back to the beginning where this piece began, harmony of the elements of Nature seems to be not feasible, neither living in harmony with Nature possible, for all things born in Nature, persist in Nature for a while before they perish in the icy chill of natural death. A harmonic living with Nature is, thus, a contradiction in terms, for natural elements are ever in a disequilibrium and forever seeking equilibrium without ever attaining it. 

The sensory universe is dependent on the senses even as senses arise out of the universe and with the universe as a queer complement of the latter. The attributes assigned by the mind to what it cognizes as the universe, spring from it, making the universe a derivative of the mind even as the mind may be posited as a counter-derivative of a Cosmic Mind if one such exists s such. This dependent knowledge, this sensory perception, this entangled relative existence of Matter and Mind makes clear conception of existential reality within the realm of Nature impossible . The mind moves, the senses shift and matter changes in attributes with it. All knowing becomes relative, partial, all understanding fractured as Reality eludes comprehension. The Unknown remains unknowable as Nataraja's Dance delights, deceives and deludes. So says Shankaracharya, "Anirvachaniya Maya." [Phenomena is inexplicable in verbal terms.] Swamiji says, "Give up." If harmony in Nature is impossible, harmonic living with Nature is impossible as well. The call, thus, is to renounce, not just parts of Nature to suit convenience but the whole of it to extinction. That should imply dissolution of the individual ego and the personal identity as well to explore and discover where the harmony lies beyond the senses in a possible integrated solidarity of fundamental existence or in a nothingness that is or is not.

Written by Sugata Bose